The Jihad Against Christmas
Armed guards are patrolling outside churches in Nigeria. Christians in Pakistan and Indonesia are cowering in fear. Why? Because it’s Christmastime.
Many Muslims take a dim view of Christmas at best, and at worst actively menace Christians celebrating it. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Sheikh Yahya Safi, the head imam of Australia’s largest mosque, summed up an all-too-common view when he warned in a fatwa Saturday that “disbelievers are trying to draw Muslims away from the straight path,” and that “a Muslim is neither allowed to celebrate the Christmas Day nor is he allowed to congratulate them.”
Likewise the chairman of Indonesia’s top organization of Muslim clerics declared: “It’s better if they don’t say ‘Merry Christmas.’ It’s still up for debate whether it’s halal or haram, so better steer clear of it. But you can say ‘Happy New Year.’”
The popular online fatwa site Islam QA of the influential Saudi cleric Muhammad Saleh al-Munajjid explains further: “It is not permissible to imitate the kuffaar [unbelievers] in any of their acts of worship, rituals or symbols, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: ‘Whoever imitates a people is one of them.’” Indeed, “it is haraam [forbidden] to imitate the disbelievers and that it is obligatory to differ from those who are doomed to Hell.”
As might be expected from a religion that expects its adherents to be the executors of the divine wrath in this world, these condemnations of Christmas and Christians, and prohibitions on giving good wishes or joining in the celebrations, sometimes metastasize into intimidation and open violence. The Qur’an, after all, says that the unbelievers’ works will come to naught in this world as well as in the next (cf. 3:22), and Muslims must ensure it by making the lives of the infidels as miserable as possible.
Thank goodness for people like Joel Richardson.
For they shine the light on the short comings of the religion characterized more by submission, rather than peace.
David, not only is their a jihad against Christmas but against western civilization! And herein lies the crux.
And internalizing the following – just as a starter – is a matter of life and death – yours and mine – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/23/when-is-it-honorable-to-lie-and-under-whose-cultural-system-further-exposing-the-clash-of-civilizations-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
I, on that precious holy day, worship G-d and Jesus. You, in turn, will worship a meteor encased in a building, and a deceased pedophilic warlord.
’nuff said.
yet they claim their legitimacy from Abraham.
Yeah, really. If it is “forbidden to imitate the disbelievers,” how do Muslims justify that so many of their scriptures and practices are obvious imitations of those of Judaism and, to a lesser extent, Christianity?
I assume it’s because they are taught that their faith is the only true one, and that any similarities are because while we may all be People of the Book, we who are Jews and Christians have fallen from the true worship of Allah which was restored to them by Muhammad, and they will call us to turn from our faiths and submit to Allah. If we refuse, then we are doomed and can be killed or abused however they like for our disobedience and defiance.
Or something like that.
John, pointing out the bizzare inconsistentcies of Islam is both hate speech and raaacist. But, I have figured some of it out. Abraham was from Sumeria, so he was Arab. He liked the word Hebrew, so he invented a mew people. However, Hebrews are in no way connected to Jews cause Jews rejected the ultra sophisicated theology of Islam and are therefore really reaaly bad. To grasp Islam you must free your mind from logic and common sense. So stop thinking, get on your knees and bang your head on the floor.
Muslims, don,,t turn the other cheek, do unto others,or fallow the 10 commandments. But it is perfectly OK to have sex with children, kill Jews and other non believers, and rape and enslave their women. Lie to them and steal their stuff, that is all ok. Oh wate a minute, strike off their fingers, and haves sex with barn yard animals…. As long as you then sell them to the neighbors…. Am I forgetting anything…one more thing ….don,t use toilet paper…. And have a Merry Christmas!
Then, by all means, let me be the first to wish all Muslims checking in on PJ Media, especially those doing opposition research, A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS full of Jesus’ love and grace!
“Many Muslims take a dim view of Christmas at best, and at worst actively menace Christians celebrating it”
IMO, one can have it read :
“Many leftists take a dim view of Christmas at best, and at worst actively menace Christians celebrating it.
The Spirit of Christmas and the End to All Wars: The Christmas Truce of 1914 By Global Research Global Research, December 24, 2012
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-the-spirit-of-christmas-the-christmas-truce-of-1914/5316722
the Muslim attitude reminds me very much of 1700 years of Christian violent intolerance and anti-Semitism
The Christians aren’t even close and Geghis Khan was a Boy Scout compared to Islamic mass murder. History is not your strong suit.
So it is alright for Islam to be that way today. Is that your point?
May G-d send Christ back soon to take what he won on the cross. Even so, not my will, but G-d’s will.
I’m nt so surprised ‘cos they are slaves. What more could u expect 4rm d children of d bondwoman (hagaar). Although they may claim to be d seeds of Abrahaam but they are ismaheel’s lineage but, they forgot he was a bastard just like their so called mohammed. lest i forget MERRY CHRISTMAS to all d muslims oh…… d (slaves or d bastards)……..
WRONG. Ishmael was no bastard, but a fully legitimate and recognized son of Abraham. His lineage did not receive the promise of the Law and the Land, but he had his own blessing and inheritance, and his descendants will reconcile with those of Isaac in the end of days. SO THERE.
Your comment has “moby” written all over it.
Sorry ur case is pathetic, oh it pained u to bone ……. Should’nt hv said so u must hv being crying by now, realizing dt ur sh……..t & f’…….kn ismaheel whom u murderers called muslems claimed to b his decendants is nt just a bastard but the “REJECTED” son of a slave (bondwoman) oh… It might interest u 2 knw dt God HIMSELF had hand in sending Hagaar & her bastard son ismaheel out of Isreal a clear evidence dt God does nt hv interest whatsoever in “OUTCASTS” be it in their prayers or in their rituals. Yes, u said in ur comment dt when d time comes u d decendants of ismaheel d bastard will reconcile wt dt of isaac wow interesting, do u think dt God is a fool just like u pple dt He will allow d decendants of d outcast, slave & bastard 2 reconcile wt His own legitimate sons. U need 2 wake up 4rm ur dream. Jesus is Lord.
I’m issuing a fatwa, Take a paper bag full of dog crap, put it on the porch of every Saudi cleric’s house, set the bag on fire, ring the doorbell and hide in the bushes and watch them stomp it out.
Dog crap???? no no no, PIG CRAP.
Christians today are poorly equipped to deal with Moslems, Mormons, or others who are not Christian. Religion is not a question of opinion; it is a question of fact. When you say: Jesus Christ is my savior you are making a factual statement. When people are not Christian they are making factual errors in their thought. The real question is this: why do Christians routinely tolerate factual errors by their Moslem and Mormon friends?
just a minimal reflection on your comment leads to the conclusion that you are insane. I hope you don’t own a gun….
It is because we live in a free country where a person is free to practice the faith of his or her choosing.
I am not going to be so rude to get into a discussion of faith with someone whom I know to have a differing religious view than I do unless both of us agree ahead of time that each is likely to disagree with other. You cannot compel a person to have faith or belief where none exists. The best you can do is speak your belief and pray they hear the message. Calling someone a liar when they do not believe they are one and you have no means to prove your contension one way or the other aside from your faith does nothing to advance the cause of your message or your faith.
Come on, Harry. Sure, the Book of Mormon is wierd, but so is eating the flesh and drinking the blood of your god. They believe the Gospel, so why not cut them some slack? Islam is evil and intends to destroy all othre faiths. We need each other.
If you read Harry’s comments over at Janice Fiamengo’s article about academic “diversity,” you will probably get a better sense of what his real point is. Suffice it to say that my impression is, he holds no brief for Christianity of any classification…
Kind of a waste of time, ain’t he?
It would be very surprising if a faith claiming to be true had nothing strange or odd about it. It would be surprising if there were no similarities with other religions or philosophies. What would such a faith be like?
To quote Steve Martin: “Some people have a way with words and some people not have way.”
These muslim f*cks can shove the Koran up their arse this CHRISTmas day.
As far as I’m concerned, the can do it everyday.
Returning it to its place of origin?
In the midst of such persecution in the past a sovereign would rise up and accept the designation “Defender of the Faith” and then would quell the violent persecuters. The only Christian country I can think of who would be willing to do so is Poland although they lack the military power to do so.
Bah humbug, cancel Christmas! (Sharif don’t like it, you know he really hates it!)
Okay, but can we still dance like we did last summer?
Muslims are confuse and lack gospel aproach to convince their followers, so they resort to violence.
Muslims are simply threatened by the truth. I hope that someday they realize the error of their ways. Until then, we must resist them by force if necessary.
Once this global jihad has fizzled out in defeat, Muslims will likely flock to the Gospel, eagerly dropping their hateful god for a loving god. But we can expect hell on earth till that happens.
The basic differences between the three Abrahamic religions are as follows:
Christianity: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Judaism: Do not do unto others that which you would not have them do unto you.
Islam: Do unto others.
I will continue to say “Merry Christmas”, except to militant Muslims to whom I say “Kiss My Ass!”
What about the camels they rode in on?
Is anybody here aware that Jesus is regarded as a prophet in Islam and generally treated with great respect? Some of you sound like you think that the God of the Muslims is a different God than the God of the Christians. Oddly, even people in the Middle Ages knew that Muslims and Christians differed in their interpretation of Christ and God but were basically on the same page. Finding some Muslim extremists making nasty remarks about Christianity is hardly research.
Fellas, there’s this think called Wikipedia.
You can tell by their holy books, Allah id definitely The God of Abraham or Moses.
My bad.. I meant to say NOT.
You really need to brush up on your history. Islam came some 500 years after Christ, and over 1500 years after Abraham. Mohammed most probably began as a Christrian heretic, as many early heretics emmigrated to the Saudi penninsula. Just last September, archeologists found remains of Nestorian Churches dated from the 3rd Century.
By reducing Christ to a mere prophet of God and not His Son, Mohammed destroyed any connection to Christianity. And Islam subsumes the Old Testament to The Revealation according to Mohammed. The Koran is nothing more than a mish-mash of 2 religions relegated to to the musings of a madman. Islam’s followers had a difficult time evangelizing by any means other than the sword. And one has to give the early Caliphites credit; they built an empire that stretched from Persia to Spain in a very short period of time. By the 16th Century they were at the Gates of Vienna. And to this day, Islam grows via violence and dischord.
Unless it was the original adoration of a bear skull by some cave man or other, there has never been a “pure” faith. We think of the Bible as an old book, but the Jews were really newcomers in a world that had been civilized for a couple of thousand years, and their writings and the ideas they express are a mix of disparate traditions. To begin at the beginning, the very word “paradise” is Persian; and it’s easy to point out the Babylonian and even Greek echoes in Genesis—one chapter almost sounds like it was taken from Hesiod, a Greek poet writing at the same time that Genesis was cobbled together. More generally, the God of the Jews is pretty clearly an amalgam of the desert God Yahweh, the Phoenician storm God Baal, and several others. Which is why it is pretty funny to write “the Koran is nothing more than a mish-mash of 2 religions relegated to to [sic] the musings of a madman.” All religions are mish-mashes; and if Muhammad was a madman, so was St. Paul.
You write “By reducing Christ to a mere prophet of God and not His Son, Mohammed destroyed any connection to Christianity.” The Muslims could certainly retort “by making Christ into a a son of God, the Christians destroyed any pretense of adhering to monotheism.” I’m certainly glad I don’t have to take these intramural squabbles seriously. But it is extremely difficult to understand religion if you think for a minute that any one of them contains a particle of truth.
“But it is extremely difficult to understand religion if you think for a minute that any one of them contains a particle of truth.”
Whatever you meant by that is also extremely difficult to understand. Perhaps you could parse your own sentences in search of the intended message before writing them here.
As for me, I don’t have an issue with anyone’s belief system . . so long as it doesn’t involve abusing, enslaving, burning, killing, stoning or maiming others. If that shoe fits a religion, I think the rest of the human race has an obligation to speak out against it.
While there are certainly believers who manage to understand other religions without animus or bias, it obviously complicates things relative to us atheists for whom religions are rather like species of butterflies or petunias. I was reacting to JP who calls Muslims heretics, as if that word means something if you aren’t in the game yourself.
OK. Sorry if I missed your point. I guess one man’s heretic is another man’s prophet.
I understand that it is hard to take squabbles over details seriously when you are dis-inclined to believe in either side’s key tenets and concepts. Curious as to why you embrace atheism. Isn’t agnosticism more intellectually defensible? … although neither has enough holidays.
I appreciate that the word “atheist” usually refers to somebody who thinks that disbelief in God is a big deal. It isn’t a big deal for me, however. I’m an atheist in the most basic sense of the word, but I don’t think a great deal follows from this purely negative conclusion.
I suspect that not believing in God or, at any rate, not believing in any God remotely like the Gods of the historical religions, is pretty much the default opinion among highly educated people, though they often have various ways of avoiding the title “atheist.” This is true even of those who, like me, take some of the ethical and political ideas of the world’s religion very seriously indeed as part of the skeleton of human civilization. The falsity of all the tenets of all the religions doesn’t mean that that they aren’t important.
Or, kindly of course, Muslims who don’t like Christmas can just ignore it. That or they can come over for a beer and a ham sandwich (we ain’t picky.)
They have a duty to eliminate Christmas. They can’t ignore it.
Instead of repeating the same crimes over and over generation after generation why not we begin with ourselves looking at my own wickedness in my heart and beg God to forgive me then when seeing this wickedness in my street ,my town , my city my state and my nation who also need a cleansing from wickedness , I ask God to forgive my nation who know what God’s answer will be or God’s will for my own nation but as always many “prophet” types fling fling fling themselves claim they know God’s will and Satan the Devil uses them to bring a greater plate of wickedness to the people. I feel sorry for people however when they get frisky and voice goes against their thoughts and say: Love your enemies and pray for those who are out to kill you” the frisky then buy more guns planning for the day for great war then another voice claiming to be from God say: Those who take up the sword will be destroyed by the sword” jesus say to frisky Peter
Then they read in Revelation in God’s word the Bible:” Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” Revelation 5
Satan the Devil put his arm around you like he is your best friend to pick you to open his scrolls of his revelation but this one in revelation 5 is not from him
Revelations? You’re better off consulting the I Ching.
No, actually there is no real substantial connection between Chrisianity and Islam. Allah is not the same as the Hebrew Yahwe or the Christian God the Father. Allah was the Moon God of Mohammad’s Bedouin tribe. Mohammad was a merchant and cobbled together a religion incorporating portions of the Jewish and Christian religions to increase his standing with both those communities for financial purposes. He made Jesus a prophet to try to entice Christians because they constituted the bulk of the population in the Middle East at the time. When his new “religion” was rejected by the Christian and Jewish communities, his writings became less consiliatory and more confrontational. He kind of made it up as he went along. As another poster pointed out, he was indeed a pedophile, he justified this in the “Hadiths” which were supposedly divinely inspired quotations from Allah that only came to Mohammad. He used other such “revelations” to justify war, slavery and confiscation of the wealth and property of others. Judaism sets down core values for man to follow. Christianity appeals to the better spritual aspects of mankind. Islam seeks to control every aspect of a person’s life down to what hand to use when you wipe your butt. Judeao-Christian ethics seek to uplift the human condition. Islam seeks to uplift the condition of the elite few who control everything and everyone who follow this death cult.
Your linkage of what any particular believer is permitted to believe or give credence to, with Muslim violence discredits all believers, Jew or Christian.
What harm is there in these you cited?
“a Muslim is neither allowed to celebrate the Christmas Day nor is he allowed to congratulate them.” and
“It’s better if they don’t say ‘Merry Christmas.’ It’s still up for debate whether it’s halal or haram, so better steer clear of it.”
Are you conflating me with Muslims and their violence because I neither celebrate, nor congratulate nor say Merry X-mas? If so, you are anti-believer, all to well known and highly dangerous among the two legged species.
Where is the harm in wishing someone “Merry Christmas” if you yourself don’t believe in Christmas?! You are meerly wishing them enjoyment of their own belief without embracing it yourself. The problem with atheists is that they expect us to recongnize their non-belief but do not extend the same courtesy. They are not happy unless everyone else is marinating in their own disbelief.
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